On behalf of the Federation of Associations for the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights Spain, I would like to express our congratulations on your appointment as Secretary-General of the United Nations and, coinciding with the beginning of the performance of this responsibility, I wish you all the best in your endeavors. The peoples of the world need the United Nations to redouble its efforts to meet the motives that led to its creation.

We are experiencing difficult times as reflected in the increase in international contradictions that may lead to new war conflicts; intolerable inequality between States and within States themselves; the decline in the recognition of human rights — still, there is no solution to the refugee crisis, which has turned human beings into people without "right to have rights"; the weakening of democratic systems or the threat of global destabilization by the ecological-climatic crisis.

We hope that in these crucial years of your mandate these problems will evolve favorably; and from our country and to the extent of our possibilities, we will try to contribute to it with all our efforts.

Yours sincerely,

Elisa Veiga

President of the Federation of Associations for the Defense and Promotion of Human Rights Spain